Improved fruit-basket



UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

L. WHEELER BEEUHER, 0E NEY HAVEN, CONNECIICUT.

IMPROVED FRUIT-BASKET.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,073, dated April 29,1862.

To all who/1t 'it 77mg/ concern,.-

lSe it known. that l, L, VHEELER BERG/HER, of New ll'aven, in the countyof New Haven and State ot Connecticut, have invented a new and ImprovedBasket for Fruit and other Uses; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing` is a :t'ull and exact description thereof, ret'- erenee beinghad to the accompanying drawing:

The nature ot my invention consists in usin g paper :for baskets,instead of wood or other material, and in fastening' the same togetherwith glue or other like matter, the whole rendered impervious tomoisture by a coating oit' varnish or otherwise.

To enable others to make and use my in- Yeniion, l will proceed to itsconstruction.

l take paper of such thickness and cut it into strips of such width andlengt-h as thes i ze ot' the basket may require; th en,t`or a ro undbasket, cross the pieces in the center the same as for a wood-splintbasket, fastening1 with glue where they cross, thus forming a bottom orbase; then turn up the strips, as in common basket-work, coniining theupper ends with an inner and outer band to form the rim;

then strengthen around the bottom and center with outer bands as oftenas may be necessary for the size and strength required, gluing thestrips and bands together wherever they may cross, all of which is morefully shown in the accompanying drawing, the whole covered with asolution of rosin and alcohol or any other like preparation in suitableproportions to form a protection from i moisture.

L. WHEELER BEEGIIER.

lVit-nesses:

ANsoN BEECHEE, JOSEPH F. BENTON.

